7. If you do otherwise, you will reap the consequences (thereof) accordingly, and when the second opportunity came for your sedition4 (for Islam). We sent him, who disgraced you by entering the mosque as per previous foe and continued destruction until success attended him.5

12. And We have made night and day as Our signs ad replace the night with daylight to enable you to seek livelihood through your Providence and to count period, and take account and everything We have described in detail.

15. He who is guided is guided for his own sake and he who is lost in misguidance shall suffer himself, and nobody is going to bear the burden of others, and We are not going to punish any generation until We raise a prophet from amongst it.

16. And when We intend to destroy a town after establishing right to Our obedience, We increase the wealthy therein, and they begin to disobey Us despite Our warnings and then become liable to punishment when We destroy them thoroughly.7

19. And he who intends eternity and attempts in the way8 patience cheerfulness, tact, wisdom, courage, and justice in which it has to be attempted, provided he is faithful9 to acquire Divine Will against worldly attractions, shall be one whose attempts will be appreciated10

1. Every act, good or evil, remains a record for exposition on Reckoning Day. Better get it recorded to please you on Day of Judgment, by penance, if evil.

2. With wealth, luxury increases and calls for a revolution, ending in Divine wrath.

3. Prosperity in world and eternity depends on earnestness and hard work, worldly prosperity is transitory and subject to accounting, unlike eternal, which is unaccountable and permanent. Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties which contribute causes for patience, endurance to overcome pains, strength to overcome weakness, bravery to face danger, sustenance to entertain hope, lightness of difficulties. Man should trust in God, and God shall fulfil it as per His Will, and he should labour, as earnestly and sincerely, as if he himself did it, leaving to none what pertains to him, praying to god to help him in his endeavours.

It may be noted actions have three phases: those of inanimate object having external agency, those of animals having motives but void reason, those of man govern reason, hence freedom of human action restricts this freedom within bounds of rationality, bearing in mind object of his creation. Destruction of civilization starts with cities, where glory and pomp flourish and abound.

23. And your Providence has finally decided, “Do not worship any but Him” and oblige parents, and when they attain old age in your presence, either one or both of them, do not say Eh! to them. And do not look askance at them, and talk mildly to them.

33. Do not kill anybody except on grounds of justice. Those who kill an innocent being shall see assistance rendered to the heirs of the murdered against him. There will be no excess therein. Verily the martyr has been thus assisted11.

46. And We have lined their hearts so they (infidels) may not understand and We have made them hard of hearing and when you remember your Providence in the Qur’an as a unique Monarch, they turn their back out of hatred from you.

47. We are fully aware when they hear attentively with what motive they do so, and these disobedient, when they gather together privately they say, “He is not a prophet but works under the influence of magic.”

51. Or if there is anything harder than this, in your knowledge, upon which they will say, “Who is going to raise us alive?” You say, “The same Lord who created you the first time.” Then they will say, looking at you and nodding their heads, “When shall we be raised alive?” Say, “Shortly.”

Moral virtues, without religion are but cold and lifeless and insipid. It is religion which opens the mind of great conceptions, fills it with sublime ideas and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasure.

57. Those are whom they pray, whereas they are on the look out of a medium, who can proximate them to God and are hopeful of Divine Mercy, and are afraid of Divine punishment. Verily, Divine punishment is one to be dreaded.

59. And nothing prevented Us from sending miracles, except their predecessors falsified, for which they are punished, and We sent to Thamud an open miracle, in a she-camel, which they killed, and We only send such miracles, as a warning.

60. And recollect when We informed you, your Providence has circumspected all of them, and the dream which We revealed to you, was but a mere warning to your followers and referred to the cursed tree in the Glorious Qur’an15 and We warned them, but it does not produce any effect except enhancing their indifference all the more.

67. And when calamity befalls during raging storm, which they have to face16, except God, Whom do they cry unto? And when We give safety against being drowned or receiving a downpour of stones from Heaven as Divine wrath?

64 This is where Divine Philosophy helps you in getting lawful property and children while you earn them, if you keep Divine remembrance, where simple moral virtues are cold and lifeless, as noted under morals of foregoing paragraph.

73. And they were almost about to deviate you (by persuasive means) from what We have revealed to you18 (Prophet). They wanted by spreading sedition among the followers, and to attribute it (their acts) to Us, when they would reconciled with you (oh Prophet).

1. Those who ignore to select their true religious leaders, in this world, for want of worldly engagement or out of self-opinion, or under the influence of worldly authority, by entertaining democratic, socialistic thoughts or being blind hearted in this world, shall be so raised in eternity.

2. The cause of the Battle of Badr is clearly expressed in the Text, due to expulsion of Our Prophet from Mecca, as a Divine punishment, wherein the deadly enemy of the Prophet, Abu Jahal was killed, with other ring leaders. Other companions of the Prophet wanted to capture a party of Meccans which were returning from Damascus, with a lead of merchandise, to get their booty, as God had promised.

78. Keep steady at prayers at appointed periods, and during transit of the sun, and during setting of the sun. Verily, you will be questioned on the morning prayers, before day break, and verily morning prayers shall bear witness to your acts.

79. And during the night, say after midnight, prayers which are obligatory to you, oh Prophet. Shortly shall your Providence raise you on exalted stage, on the plain on Reckoning day (to plead intercession).

This carries a brief command regarding the five times of prayers and an obligatory command to the Prophet for night prayers with a promise to grant him privileges of pleading intercession on behalf of his followers attached to the Ahl al-Bayt, who alone shall be capable of receiving intercession.

Action of everyone is based on his mental attitude, shaped by degree of purity of heart. Try to keep it pure, as desired by the Providence, as its misuse is Divine ingratitude.

93. Or God makes for your palace of gold or you ascend to heaven, even then we will not believe in you until you bring a record from Him which We shall be able to read. Say, “My God is far more glorious than to comply with your request. Your only a human messenger from Him.”

An atheist is but a mad ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God, talking familiarly to his creditor, without ever praying what he owes. Reason is a mysterious Divine Gift with knowledge as its spirit, sense of understanding as its soul, chastity as its head, sense of shame its eye, tact its tongue, kindness its desire, mercy its heart, aided by faculties of certainty, truth, calmness, self-respect, fulfilling promise, sympathy, piety, sincerity, charity, contentment, resignation, and thanksgiving.

97. He can only be on guidance whom God guides, and you will not find anyone to sympathize except God, with him whom God forsakes and on Reckoning Day, We shall raise them head over heels, blinded, mute, an deaf and Hell shall be their destination. Fire whereof, if it begins to smoulder, shall be reignited.

99. Did they not understand God, Who created the Heavens and Earth, can create again what He has created once? And He has fixed periods for them wherein there is no doubt and these infidels will certainly refuse.

101. And certainly We had endowed upon Moses nine miracles: locusts, lice, blood, frogs, flood, crossing of the Red Sea, gushing of water from stones, rod becoming a serpent, and shining hand. As the Bani Israel when Moses put them forth (the above miracles) Pharaoh said, “In my opinion, you have been bewitched.”

110. Say, “Pray unto Him, call Him God or Compassionate, with whatever attribute you choose, all Glorious attributes are his, and you, in your prayers, do not raise your voice loudly, nor say in a whispering tone, but in between.

11. This refers to Divine Lights, who have laid their lives for propagating Islam, shall be assisted by the Prophet, Imams, i.e. Divine Lights and their followers against the murders, and against those who are pleased with the action of the murders.

12. Philosophy has two sides as (1) Science and (2) Art. (1) Knowledge is acquired by arriving at the truth of its science, (2) its practice is Art in conduct. The more we understand, more deeply do we feel Divine obligations, and practice of the same will make you perfect (in Divine Philosophy). You will be contented with little of world, be modest and economical in prosperity, be patient in adversity, equal minded at all times, dutiful to (1) God, (2) Divine Lights, (3) neighbours, (4) self, and (5) the dead. The world cannot show a more exalted character than that of a truly religious Philosopher, who is a Divine Light and who delights in glorifying God all the time.

13. Those destroyed, having lost life and property shall rise on Reckoning Day.

14. Those punished will be on Resurrection before rising for Reckoning Day.

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